I had no idea there was such a thing, but how fun, International Mud Day! Lots of parents & teachers out there are making little mud pie kitchen type play areas so I was inspired to as well.

We have this space between our sandbox / under our “mountain” climber so it was time to take advantage of it. It’s now our little sand/water area. I really don’t want water in the actual sandbox. Adding water to sand is something I want my group to be able to do, but I do have to keep kids fairly clean and decent throughout the day and I can’t have the whole thing muddy. I hope by creating this new area, they will keep the water here – we’ll see. I just put down the three blocks & the boards against the back- nothing fancy.

I think this will work! The only things I bought were the white colander, wood utensils {they ♥ the meat tenderizer!} and aluminum pans. We had all these other toys in the sandbox already. The last time we replaced the sand we got this dirtier type of sand & I DO NOT like it but it works out well for this activity! Hopefully, the kids will “use it up” so we can get some new, nicer sand.

My group is mostly boys right now. I had to drag them away from the slip-n-slide to come play in the dirt with me, but once they got into it, they were really enjoying it! Some girls will be here tomorrow and I can’t wait to see what they think.

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